Welcome back, solvers who want some hints, not direct answers.

For you NYT Times solvers, the entry before this is the NYT Monday.  BEQ, as he’s called, gives a very challenging Monday puzzle for those who zip through the NYT Monday.

This week’s had some nasty intersections.  If you didn’t know a couple specific items, there wasn’t much you could do but guess-and-check or google or reveal.  I like guess-and-check, perhaps ’cause I like fooling myself that I “solved” the puzzle when I really didn’t.  Anyway, I’ll start with the nasty points where possibly unknown answers meet.

17-Across / 4-Down:  The “other” 2012 Best Actress nominee is not a royal sounding name, as I thought for a while.  And Singer/songwriter Sufjan has a much more ordinary last name.   Need another hint for that square?   Why don’t you just declare victory!

21-Down / 30-Across:  Seaweed wrap?  / Journalist Suskind.  Not sure why there’s a question mark on seaweed wrap.   Think food, not seashore.  Of course, you may, like me have eaten this a zillion times and have no idea what it’s call.  So perhaps you didn’t know it, ______.   <– That, believe it or not, is the hint.

In that same area:  You do know the product (20-Across) that  “Makes beef sing” and it’s not an odd brand name at all.  It actually isn’t a single word, though it’s singular in a different way.  You rarely see the second part of this answer spelled out.